Flour-bag rack



Jan. 15, 1929.

.1. c. PEDERSEN ET AL FLOUR BAG RACK Filed Nov. 1, 1927 2-7-1...

amt: J: afldersen v .Pfl/ielsen Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES C. PEDERSEN AND GEORGE P. NIELSEN, OF INTERNATIONAL FALLSyMI NNESOTA.

1,699,199 PATENT OFFICE.

rriouanno RACK.

Application filed November This invention relates to racks adapted to contain commodities, and particularly to racks for use in bakeries, adapted to support bags of flour.

It is ordinarily the practice in bakeries and other places using flour that bags of flour weighing from 'lortyaiine to ninety-eight pounds are disposed either on the floor where they are particularly liable to attacks by rats and mice, or upon planks, the placing of the bags upon planks on trestles or the like, of course, requiring considerable space for the storage of large quantities of flour.

The general object of the present invention, therefore, isthe provision of a storage rack of this character so constructed that rats, mice and other animals cannot have access to the flour either by climbing up to the flour or jumping down upon the rack.

A further object is to provide a rack which is so constructed that relatively large quantities of flour bags may be stored thereon and these flour bags rendered readily accessible.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein I igure 1 is a front elevation of our device;

Figure is a vertical section.

Referring to this drawing, it will be seen that the base of the rack consists of a frame 10, which may be rectangular or of any suitable form and having the downwrdly depending metal legs 11 which may carry casters 12 at their lower ends. These legs may be formed integral with the frame or attached thereto in any suitable manner, and preferably there are one or more longitudinally extending members '13 forming part of the frame which extend midway between the outer members of the frame. Supporting slats 14 are disposed across the frame and preferably attached thereto, these slats being spaced from each other. It will be noted that the slats extend out beyond the frame 10 and these slats act as a slatted floor for the bottom of the storage rack and these slats support a sheet metal floor 1 1.

The frame includes uprights 15 which sup port a top frame 16 which is likewise rectangular in form and may be braced in any siutable manner. These uprights are shown as being braced from each other by the diagonal braces 17. The frame 16 has hinged to the metallic lids or roofs 18, these lids or roof sections 18 being preferably upwardly curved and being of such extent that they 1, 1927. Serial No. 230,357

number may be used, and prcferablv these sections are adapted to be held by braces 19 or 111 any other suitable manner.

Attached to the uprights 15which constitute the supporting frame for the roof are Walls 20 of tin or othersheet metal which extend down to the frame 10, and these walls extend around the entire lower portion of the rack, Preferably there is an intermediate support 15 and an intermediate transverse wall 20 of tin so as to divide the rack into two parts. We do notwish to be limited to this, however, as the rack might be divided into smaller sections, if desired, or the intermediate wall 20 may be left out. Where this rack is to be disposed against a wall of a building, there is preferably a back wall 21 of sheet metal which extends from the frame 10 upward to the roof supporting frame 16, and if the rack is to be disposed with one end and its back against the wall, one end is also provided with a metallic wall, but where the rack is not disposed against the wall neither the end nor the back of the rack need be made of sheet metal but may be entirely open except as regards the lower portion of the rack.

Itwill be seen thatthe legs 11 are sufiiciently high so that mice or rats cannot jump up on the frame 10 or transverse slats 14 and further that even assuming mice and rats could in some manner climb the legs 11 01- jump up from the floor they could not get access to the bags of flour because of the sheet metal 20 which encloses the lower part of the rack. By making the legs high, how ever, not only is the flour more fully protected but the floor beneath the rack may be cleaned whenever desired. If a box or halo should be left alongside the rack uponwhich mice could climb, they could not have access to the flour because of the protective sheathing 20. The roof 18 with its overhang prevents mice from jumping or dropping down upon the roof and then having access to the flour. By having the roof made in sections which are hinged to the frame 16, the rack may be readily loadedwith flour and may be loaded to the very top so that all the space in the rack may be utilized. There is no need of covering the ends or sides of the rack except where one end or side is to be disposed against a wall, in which case a metallic wall is provided for this purpose.

A rack of this character may be shifted readily to any convenient part of a building and may be loaded at one point and then carlied to any convenient part of the mixing room and the flour be utilized from time to time as desired. By having the bottom slatted, ventilation of the rack is secured without permitting access to the rack by rats and mice.

e claim 1. A flour bag rack of the character de scribed including a metallic frame, metallic legs extending down therefrom and having casters, slats mounted upon the bottom frame and projecting beyond the same, a sheet metal floor supported on th upright members e2; tending upward from the bottom frame and supporting a top frame, metallic roof sections hinged to the top frame, the roof sections at their margins projecting beyond the upper metallic i'rame, means for holding said root sections open when desired, and a sheathing of sheet metal extending upward from the bottom frame and less in height than the height of the rack.

52. A flour bag rack 01 the character described including a metallic frame, metallic legs extending down therefrom and having casters, slats m unted upon the bottom 'ti'aine, a sheet metal floor su 'iported upon the slats, upright membersextending upward from the bottom frame and supporti. g a top frame, metallic root sections hinged to the top frame, the root sections at their ii'lai'ginse; projecting beyond the upper inetaliic frame, means for holding said roof sections open when de sired, and a sheathing of sheet metal extend ing upward from the bottom frame and less in height than the height of the raclr, certain oi the sides of the rack having metal sheathing extending from the floor oi the rack to the rooi frame thereof.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aiih; our

signatures, 1

JAMES C. PEDERSEN. GEORGE P. NIELSEN. 

